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INTRODUCTION

Typical subliminal message

Subliminal perception is a deliberate process created by communication technicians, whereby you receive and respond to information and instructions without being aware of it. Messages in the form of printed words, pictures or voices presented either very rapidly or very obscurely bypass your conscious awareness. Anything consciously perceived can be evaluated, criticized, discussed, argued, and possibly rejected. Anything programmed subliminally to your subconsciousness meets no resistance. This subliminal information is stored in your brain and capable of influencing your judgment, behavior and attitudes.

The use of subliminal techniques in print communication media has been going on in the United States at least since the World War I period. For example, Norman Rockwell's first cover on The Saturday Evening Post during 1917 incorporated embedded words SEX. Whenever an embedded word or picture accidentally became consciously visible, the readers would pass it off as a joke, an accident, or a product of their imaginations.

Serious commercial experiments with subliminal messaging were conducted in the mid 50-s. On June 22, 1956, the British Broadcasting Corporation experimented with projecting subliminal images on television. Pictures were flashed on the screen too quickly to be seen consciously, but they did make an impression on the subconscious. The BBC experiment was followed by experiments by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Mexico's Televisa commercial TV and radio network, US TV station WTWO in Bangor and many more.

Experiments were not limited to television. In 1958, radio station WAAF in Chicago broadcast "subaudible" commercials. Seattle's KOL broadcast hardly audible taped messages "below" the music played by its disc jockeys. "How about a cup of coffee?" was one, and "Someone's at the door" was another. On December 8, 1972, The New York Times reported that In-Flight Motion Pictures, Inc. would begin selling subliminal commercials embedded in the movies they would distribute to all the major airlines. Supermarkets across the country reported reducing shopliftingby an average of 30-50% by broadcasting subliminal messages such as "I will not steal" and "We are watching you". Stimutech, Inc. of East Lansing, Michigan markets a computer video system that flashes subliminal messages on your television while you watch the regular programming. Subliminal messages are prepared by teams of psychologists who use Freudian ideas to change the thinking patterns and behavior of the viewer.

The most known experiment with subliminal messaging was conducted by a marketing researcher and psychologist James Vicaryin 1957 during the presentation of the movie Picnic. Every 5 seconds the words "Hungry? Eat popcorn. Drink Coca Cola" were projected for 0.003 seconds. That is extremely fast. What you see in the picture on the left, for example, flashes for 0.04 seconds. Sales of popcorn and Coke in that New Jersey theater increased 57.8 percent and 18.1 percent respectively. Numerous scientific researches following these experiments confirmed beyond any doubt that subliminal messaging works. When advertising industry and government agencies understood the potential of subliminal messaging they started investing millions in developing and perfecting of subliminal techniques, that can be used not only in marketing, but also in propaganda and mind control. In 1962 Vicary suddenly confessed that he fabricated the results of his experiment... Why would someone discredit himself in such a way and lose his dignity and credibility? Apparently he was paid to make this announcement. As the saying goes: The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist... That's exactly the trick they are trying to pull —convincing the world that subliminal messaging does not work. And they did a pretty good job. People refuse to believe that a secret technologyhas been used on them for decades if not more. Technology that invisibly modifies their choices, channels new values, managesmotives and
drives them into pathological behavioral patterns in the interest of certain
power structures.They will call you wacko if you tell them anything like that.Yet subliminal messages are being bombarded at you continuously throughout the day, through books, movies, magazines, television, radio and music. Every major newspaper, every poster, every magazine in America have subliminal messages.

How can something that we don't notice affect our behavior? Well, unnoted does not mean unseen. Let us first understand how our perception works. As you know, our mind consists of two interacting parts: conscious and subconscious. The subconscious part of mind operates below the level of conscious awareness, it controls reflexes, automatic functions and handles the processing and storing of incoming information. Subconsciousness is able to process 20,000 bits of information simultaneously, while consciousness can deal only with 7 ± 2 bits of information at the same time.

All information picked by our senses is sent to the brain and absorbed by the subconsciousness.However, only very concrete and relevant data is passed to the conscious mind and the rest never leaves the subconsciousness. A good example of this is the Cocktail Party Effect : you can talk with a friend in a crowded party and still listen and understand what he says even if the place is very noisy. You can simultaneously ignore what another nearby person is saying, but if someone over the other side of the room suddenly mentions your name, you notice that sound and respond to it immediately. Not only that your name immediately triggers your attention, you are also aware of the entire sentence itcame with. From this experience we can learn that our brain records everything that takes place around us.Interesting that certain words like SEX, BLOOD, DEATH, FUCK and such have the same effect in triggering your attention as your name.So, only the information considered as "relevant" goes to the consciousness. Non essential information, short or vague stimuli are stored in the subconscious mind without reaching our awareness. Important to stress that they are NOT discarded, but stored. E V E R Y T H I N G you have ever experienced in your life, from every stranger's face you have ever glanced at in a crowd to every spider web you gazed at as a child, can be retrieved from your memory by hypnosis or by electrical stimulation of the brain cells in temporal lobes. Hence whatever was subliminally put into your brain will stay there forever and in the right circumstances will trigger the right reaction in you.

The most common subliminal message is S E X.

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Screenshot from Beethoven (1992) 00:51:10

Screenshot from House (S06E05)

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Click the images for highlights if you can't see subliminal embeds.

Since almost all people have a strong affinity to sex, a sexual subliminal message would be the most effective one. Embedded on a product it's supposed to trigger viewer's attention, emotions and stir up affinity in him toward the product. Unfortunately, as you are going to see for yourself, this principle has been heavily misused, abused and misapplied. Blatant sexuality on the verge of pornography can be easily found in public advertising, family movies, cartoons and children products.

The famous Farrah Fawcett’s “SEX” in the hair:

This poster had been one of the major urban legends of the late 70s. It was always puzzling why this image in particular became incredibly popular (over 12 millions copies sold). After all, there were plenty of other posters of scantily clad attractive young women.

The word SEX in print media is usually embedded into hair, creases in clothing, facial lines, or rough background surfaces. Often some noise added to disguise it, like in the House snapshot, or it can be spelled as "ssex" or "sexx", etc.

Letter-looking patterns can naturally occur in such mediums. An artist usually looks for these patterns and starts from there. For example in the following Jantzen ad the letter "X" is already formed by the stitches of the man's shirt. Then the shadow of his hand was modified a bit to look like an "E" and the letter "S"—purportedly a water ripple—was lightly painted in the gap under his arm.

A one word guarantee:

Another technique is to write numerous SEXes in interweaving mosaic-like manner on a transparent overlay which can be superimposed onto any photograph at any intensity level desired.

Another interesting technique is embedding of anamorphic images—kind of what you see when you look into a funny mirror at an amusement park or into a shiny coffee pot at home. These distorted, often grotesque images serve as a decoy for the real message which can be hidden within the ground (foliage, flowers, landscapes, reflections in bottles, ice cubes, symbols, and so forth). Although it is not consciously obvious, it may very well be obvious to our subconsciousness and recorded there.A surprisingly large amount of subliminal death symbolism is also used, mainly in booze ads —skulls hidden in ice cubes, clouds, etc., the word DEATH or DETH often hidden in backgrounds.

The ability to see subliminal embeds can be developed and perfected. As in anything else, the more you do it, the better you get. I suggest you to take this fun test to see how perceptive you are and train your vision to see subliminal messages.

hey, I recently picked up a copy of the book "Mustaine" about Dave Mustaine and have found the numbers 666 on his forehead between his eyebrows and the word sex written twice on his face. It's ridiculously obvious once you actually look beyond the basic image.

I just googled for Mustaine and you're right: there are three sixes between his eyebrows (the third one is a half size of the first two) and a transparent word sex appears MANY times on his face. The most obvious one is right below his chin (the "X" is partially shaded). Thanks for telling me, I'll add it to the blog.

No problem, i have seen alot more hidden messages on magazines and such, but this one about the Blackswan part: just had to be said right away (by the way alot of more movie posters have hidden messages in them aswel)... 1 Question though: Is there a technique i can learn to read these hidden messages more easier? I know when i zoom in a pics there is in these tiny pixels so much more written but its kind of hard to read ( i mean amazing that you could read it from her face,lips and hair aswel with eas) so if there is any technique i can do to see them more clear also do share so i can teach that technique also on others. Besides that Keep Up The Good Work. My eyes are open thanks to alot of reading and looking up info and offcourse above all finding the answers within one self. That have brought us all here.

There's no any special technique that I know of. I just tilt my screen backwards and set a high brightness. Be aware though that when preoccupied with something particular our mind can project meanings onto things so sometimes you can misjudge what you see. For example you can look at the trees, cracks in the rocks, JPEG artifacts and see the word SEX. So my advice to you: don't look for the word "SEX" otherwise you gonna project it. Just free you mind and start paying attention to background details and you'll see what really is there.

Yes, well said. You have to be carefull not to project the word yourself. Anyway i do believe that the movie poster from Salt ( the one with the face ) is also alot of the word "SEX" written. Bellow her neck on the right. Just to let you know.

Yeah, I can see it, bright SE and dark X. But these transparent embeds are literally in EVERY Hollywood movie poster, so no scoop here. I'm after those "old school" embeds that every dummy can see, like SEX in the crown design.

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Seems like advertisers have been using all sorts of subliminal advertising and techniques. Some are obvious when you see them some arent. I read an article, which Ive put the link in the URL, that shows that subliminal advertising is possibly being sent by sound waves that you cant actually here. Makes you wonder where its going to stop.

It may not be common knowledge to everyone, but hypnosis and subliminal messaging have been around for quite some time, with both being very heavily studied by researchers. Subliminal messages have proven to be incredibly effective on a number of different fronts and by taking a closer look at the results of the research, you can see just how many different ways they can help. One study was done on children who were having problems in school, specifically in math subjects. After having positive subliminal messages sent to their subconscious, it was found that math score improved dramatically. There was another study done on a woman who was unable to lose weight, but with the help of subliminal messaging was able to take off over 100 pounds. There are those that will argue that the results are almost like a placebo effect, but even if that were found to be true, couldn’t it still be argued that it was effective?

Hi. Great site! The image on the header it is taken from a briliant movie with alines and they could be seen just with those special glasses. Pliz help me with the name of the movie.I would like to watch it again.Thx.

Well yes that's an unbiased opinion if a sales link was posted. I would have to say subliminal mp3's don't work. Because i recently met someone who said he used them for years and felt no change at all. If they did work, medical professionals would be recommending them!

I have started a website http://movieres.info that deals specifically with the techniques used in putting together and taking apart subliminal messages dealing most specifically with movies. If anyone is interested, stop by and open an account. It's free registration. The topic is and always will be controversial, so promoting it is difficult, but it might end up in the search engines as there are more posts. Also, if you started this page here, I am thinking of expanding my site with a link from the homepage to other pages. If you can set your page up that it does not need too much editing by yourself, I might be able to host the page as an internal link directly on my site. If more persons are interested, I might do this for other pages with this topic. For now, stop by and feel free to look around and invite other people that might be interested, everyone is welcome. At this time it's a forum and I started it yesterday 8/18/12.

About subliminal mp3's or subliminal audio. I've tried some, actually whole programs but they didn't work for me at all. Maybe the reason for this is, the human sense of vision is by far our strongest sense, and that's why visual subliminal messages work best.

I wanted to test my newly learned skills on one of my favorite movies, Forrest Gump. And I found sex and a baphomet in the cover photo. Sex is hidden in the bench, and the baphomet is the shadow. That was all I was able to see I'm sure there's more. It's really scary to see how easy it is for these things to cross your mind.

A highly recommended video covering the history and tactics of subliminal manipulation.This well researched video contains numerous examples, insights andquotes of the key people who created the idea of hidden persuasion .